What’s on the menu tonight? How about a one pound meatball – a mac’n’cheese burger – or Japanese noodles with ginger and shrimp? Tonight, we’re sampling apps and entrees from seven restaurants new to the Boston dining scene, from deli inspired comfort food in the Fenway area to Mexican style street fare in Salem. Plus, celebrity chef Todd English reopens the place that started it all for him, the original Olives in Charlestown.

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The Fenway section of Boylston Street has seemingly overnight become a bustling restaurant row. One of the latest eateries to open is Happy’s Bar and Kitchen, a fun, retro restaurant in the style of 1950’s New York delis. This is the latest venue from celebrity chef Michael Schlow, whose other properties include Tico, Alta Strada, Via Matta and Radius.

The stylish West Bridge Restaurant is the newest eatery to open in the bustling Kendall Square area of Cambridge. Serving French influenced cuisine in a relaxed and chic industrial setting, West Bridge is fast becoming an after work hangout for the tech crowd and a bustling restaurant / late night bar for Cambridge locals.

Todd English is a well-known celebrity chef, owning a dozen restaurants, authoring cookbooks and hosting his own television program on PBS. But his career was launched in 1989 at his popular Charlestown flagship restaurant Olives. Recently, this neighborhood fixture re-opened with a complete makeover, after a fire caused its closure two years ago.

Burgers topped with beer-battered onion rings, Mac and Cheese, grilled pineapple, and fried eggs. You name it and they’ve probably tried it on one of their twenty eight big boys at the Boston Burger Company. Boylston Street near Berkeley College of Music is their new second location, their original Davis Square Somerville eatery still packing them in.

Boston’s first Rosa Mexicano, a popular restaurant chain serving upscale, authentic Mexican food, has opened in the Seaport district. This is the fourteenth Rosa Mexicano, which started in New York twenty seven years ago. Rosa is known for its tableside guacamole carts, artfully plated Mexican cuisine, and its stylish décor – most notably a room-length water wall with miniature cliff divers jutting out.

Howling Wolf Taqueria is fast becoming a local favorite in the North Shore city of Salem. This Mexican restaurant is known for its burritos, soft corn tortilla tacos, and giant chimichangas. Their modern take on Mexican street food relies on the freshest ingredients and recipes the owners have adapted from their days living in California and New Mexico.

Red Lantern is a swank Asian influenced restaurant from a hospitality group that also owns Shrine nightclub at Foxwoods and Estate in Boston. Located in a cul-de-sac, just off Columbus Ave in the Back Bay, Red Lantern serves creative Japanese sushi, unusual wok fired Chinese dishes like Kung Pao lamb and a whole lot more. The striking room looks like something of a cross between a Las Vegas showroom and an Imperial Palace somewhere in the Far Fast.